A single, global platform for growth and innovation

Infor LN empowers you to run your entire business—across every department, every site, and every country—on one platform.

Delivering flexibility in operations and strength in financials, Infor LN is a uniquely versatile system that delivers everything complex product manufacturers need in a standard, packaged ERP. The result is an integrated system that gives you complete visibility and control across your organization with the flexibility to make adjustments as your business evolves.

Unique capabilities

Thrive in a world of mass customization with Infor LN. More than 4,500 manufacturers trust LN to help improve, accelerate, and streamline the most complex manufacturing processes anywhere. When your manufacturing operation requires detailed tracking of millions of parts from thousands of sources worldwide from as-designed to as-maintained, you can rely on Infor LN.

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Dynamic Enterprise Modeling

Drive efficiency with global process standardization features that empower you to leverage industry best practices, develop your own, and replicate them around the globe, adjusting for size, structure, and regulations. Easily change processes post-implementation to capitalize on market changes and speed innovation.

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Assembly Line Control

Precisely synchronize materials and manufacturing operations to assemble complex products with mass production efficiency and profitability. Quickly respond to last-minute customer changes with out-of-the-box best practices that enable just-in-time and in-line sequencing for made-to-order processes.

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Serial Genealogy

Trace individual components and share information across the value chain during and after production. With Infor LN, you have complete visibility of products, enabling you to generate revenue from service and maintenance long after products ship. Manage service plans, track warranty claims, and plan for end-of-life recycling or refurbishing.

"Not many providers in the market can offer comparable support for complex, multi-site operations and at the same time deliver business process flexibility and low total cost of ownership."

Infor LN also features strong inventory and warehouse management capabilities, including advanced warehousing as well as fulfillment practices such as Static and Dynamic Cross-Docking and Direct Material Supply. Direct Material Supply supports vendor managed and direct-to-line component sequencing.

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Project Lifecycle Management

Master complex projects

Manage everything from single contracts to complex multi-year projects, from contract negotiation to shipping and installation. Infor LN empowers you to quickly prepare estimates, monitor budgets, and determine earned value and accurate invoices against even the most complex manufacturing projects. Extensive out-of-the-box analytics, including a powerful and intuitive project manager workbench, enable continuous tracking of key performance indicators.

Functionality includes:

Advanced contract terms and conditions

Bids and Quotes, Proposal Management

Earned Value Management

Product Cost Ledger

Project Contract Management

Project pegging of demand and supply

Supplier staged payments

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Global Financials, Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Gain confidence with global financial visibility

In order to meet financial goals with confidence, companies need global financial budgeting and control combined with real-time visibility into revenues, costs, and profits.

Infor LN can be used in a fully integrated ERP environment and as a stand-alone financial model for any organization structure. With this flexibility, LN supports global organizations that consist of multiple companies or business units operating across different geographies. LN provides flexible account structures for recording, analyzing, and monitoring the activities of each company or business unit.

Functionality includes:

General Ledger

Accounts Receivable

Accounts Payable

Cash Management

Financial Budget System

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Quality Management

Improve control and gain predictability

LN Quality Management enables manufacturers to monitor and improve the quality of their products by enforcing regular inspection procedures throughout the manufacturing process. Quality Management uses a logistical flow of products to schedule inspections.

Functionality includes:

Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)

Statistical Quality Control, including sampling plans

First Article Inspection

Quality Manager Dashboard

Non-Conformance Reporting

Embedded enterprise social collaboration to help plan and resolve

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CRM and Sales Order Management

Exceed customer expectations—at a profit

LN can quickly process any sales order, from a single spare-part order to a complex, configure-to-order assembly. With integrated CRM, your customer service agents will have a 360-degree view of the entire order lifecycle, providing them with unparalleled insights into every customer relationship. LN improves customer relationships while minimizing the cost-to-serve.

Manufacturing Management

Support any manufacturing strategy

Infor LN supports all discrete manufacturing processes including engineer-to-order, configure-to-order, project-based, make-to-order, and make-to-stock. Whether you are manufacturing a stamped metal part or assembling an airplane, Infor LN provides comprehensive operations control with streamlined business process management.

Functionality includes:

Mixed-mode manufacturing

Assembly Planning and Control with WIP changes

Bills of materials and routing

Shop Floor Control

Assembly Line Control

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Service Lifecycle Management

Generate more post-sales revenue

Comprehensive Service Lifecycle Management enables manufacturers to generate revenue from products after they ship. LN Service Management empowers you to manage a global field service organization with complete visibility into the components of every installed product. Offer and maintain service plans, schedule preventive maintenance, and identify upgrades/upsell opportunities. Infor LN also manages your MRO facilities and warranty claims.

Functionality includes:

Customer Contact Center Management

Warranty and Claims Management

MRO and Service Deport Management

Usage-based, preventative maintenance

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Design and Engineering

Foster collaboration between design and manufacturing

Reduce time to market through tight integration between design and manufacturing. You'll be well positioned to control upfront costs by designing with full visibility of the effects on downstream manufacturing operations and sourcing and procurement. And by receiving early warnings of field issues, you'll be able to take quick action to improve design and reduce warranty costs.

Receive immediate visual confirmation of the product's features and options.

Manage documents and data.

An open technology stack to run on any infrastructure

Infor LN is built on a unique virtualized architecture that enables you to run the same ERP on a variety of hardware platforms and operating systems, giving you maximum flexibility for how you choose to deploy and manage your operations.

Open-source compatible

Infor LN empowers you to lower the total cost of ownership by supporting an open-source infrastructure alternative including:

Red Hat

EnterpriseDB

SQL database

JBoss Middleware

Rapid global deployment

Looking for faster results? DAB Group deployed a single, global instance of Infor LN including ION and BI in seven countries, across four continents, in less than a year.

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Business intelligence

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Easy and enjoyable to use

Software should look as good as it works. Otherwise, nobody's going to use it. Infor LN engages your entire organization, not just core ERP users, with a user experience that's designed to help users work faster and smarter.

Infor LN: Designed for your industry

With Infor LN, you get an ERP solution designed specifically for your industry right out of the box. LN continues to be developed jointly with industry experts to deliver industry best practices using standard packaged software, eliminating the need for costly customizations.

No other industry faces quality standards and regulatory scrutiny like aerospace and defense (A&D). When you use complex processes and high-cost components to make sophisticated products, you need a manufacturing ERP solution that can keep up. With Infor LN, you can tame complexity and meet extraordinary demands using A&D best practices right out of the box.

Legacy business solutions struggle to keep up with the pace of change in the automotive industry. Aggressive schedules, increasingly complex components, globalization, and cost challenges require a solution that is innovative and agile.

From original equipment manufacturers to aftermarket parts suppliers, Infor LN helps customers manage the demands of a modern automotive business with capabilities designed to meet the unique requirements of all industry segments.

Rely on Infor LN to manage the entire product lifecycle from initial forecasting to design, shipment, servicing, and final disposal. LN can help predict future parts and service demand as well as capture accurate equipment data, including serial numbers, end of life, warranty, service, and sales data.

Micro-verticals

With rapid product obsolescence and extensive outsourcing, high-tech supply chains are difficult to manage. That's why some of the largest electronics manufacturers and subcontractors rely on LN to accelerate their products' time-to-market while efficiently managing processes across multiple sites, companies, and countries.

With its powerful hybrid production management capabilities, Infor LN supports many types of industrial products in one or several plants. LN Enterprise Planning enables planners to simulate the impact of changes in both short and long-term forecasts, which minimizes plant disruptions.

Operating on the thinnest of margins, distributors must continually find ways to improve processes. With Infor LN for Distribution, you can optimize every facet of your operation, from inventory and warehouse management to financials, purchasing, after-market service, and more.

Project-based Manufacturing

Borrow, loan, payback

Inter-company pegged warehouse transfers

Project costing breaks

Project pegging in purchase schedules

Integrations

Infor LN easily extends to best-of-breed applications unified by a common platform and a stunning user interface. Maintain agility and simplify user adoption with software that is fast, intuitive, and enjoyable to use.